Happy happily eating snow is everything. I don’t even need to write anything else. These photos just make me happy.
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Happy my spirit animal…she’s my guide to happiness. I love this photo of her sniffing the air. She looks like she is channeling her ancient wolf ancestors.

So fierce.

She’s definitely moved into leader position in our little pack/flock/menagerie. We have to separate Max and Happy at mealtime or she’ll eat her food and then his. Here they are meandering around the yard yesterday, it was such a nice warm day!

She’s settled in so well. She still wakes up really, really early but we are working on that. She’ll use pee pads during the night but she still wants to eat breakfast at 4:30 or 5:00. I think it’s the fault of the rooster that lives at the post office nearby. Every time I wake up to Happy’s whining I can hear the rooster crowing! After she’s fed though I let her out from where she sleeps and she’ll wander back to our bedroom where I have Diesel’s old bed right next to my nightstand and she curls up there until I wake up. 

She has a lot more pep in her step these days. I think she’s happy living here. 

Look at her cute little shuffle in this video I took the other day…she gets so excited. There is sound so make sure you can hear it:

 

A video posted by Ashley Hackshaw (@lilblueboo) on Jan 2, 2017 at 7:29am PST

You can read more about Happy here!

“There is sunshine in my soul today”

…..that’s what I imagine Happy is thinking most of the time with her content little smile. 

Instead of sending Christmas cards this year I decided to adopt Happy. I found this photo of the first time I met her:

We got her from the Richmond Animal League which rescues animals that are in danger of being euthanized in city and county pounds all over Virginia. If it weren’t for RAL our sweet Happy wouldn’t be here. And she’s so content and happy…she’s not ready to give up yet! I think she’s already settled into our family so perfectly. Even Max has accepted her:

I just love her quirky little expressions:

She’s always blinking her eyes and her little smile makes everyone melt:

The only time I haven’t seen her completely happy is traveling in the car. She doesn’t like riding in a crate all that much:

But when we got home from my sister’s house she jumped out of that crate and she ran right into the house. Her tail was wagging a million miles an hour and she ran all around checking all her favorite spots. I think that means she calls our house home now! She’s changed our lives in just a short time. I’ve set up a Facebook page for Happy just so I can keep sharing unlimited photos: Happy the Happiest Dog aka “The Happy” according to my niece. 

I wanted to come up with a creative way to help pay for all of Happy’s ongoing vet visits and heart medications so I carved this new block for printing:

I love how it turned out and I think it captures her personality with that quote. Each print is printed to order and pre-framed. It’s available here in my Etsy shop if you are interested!